The Love Letters of Abelard and HeloiseJ. M. Dent and Company, 1908 - 132 pages |
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... hands ; she learns he has not found content , she knows she has not . She writes to Abelard betraying all the pent - up passion of those years of restraint ; he replies in a letter alternating between religion and regret - not accepting ...
... hands ; she learns he has not found content , she knows she has not . She writes to Abelard betraying all the pent - up passion of those years of restraint ; he replies in a letter alternating between religion and regret - not accepting ...
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... the Greeks : - ' If you demand the fortune of that day When stak'd on this right hand your honours lay , If I did not oblige the foe to yield , Yet did I never basely quit the field . ' up About this time my father , Beranger , who LETTER ...
... the Greeks : - ' If you demand the fortune of that day When stak'd on this right hand your honours lay , If I did not oblige the foe to yield , Yet did I never basely quit the field . ' up About this time my father , Beranger , who LETTER ...
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... hand , and found me in a deep sleep . I suffered the most shameful punishment that the revenge of an enemy could invent ; in short , without losing my life , I lost my manhood . So cruel an action escaped not justice , the villain ...
... hand , and found me in a deep sleep . I suffered the most shameful punishment that the revenge of an enemy could invent ; in short , without losing my life , I lost my manhood . So cruel an action escaped not justice , the villain ...
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... murmuring what comes from the hand of God , and let us not oppose our will to His . Adieu ; I give you advice which , could I myself follow , I should be happy . LETTER II Heloise to Abelard To her Lord , her 20 LETTER II.
... murmuring what comes from the hand of God , and let us not oppose our will to His . Adieu ; I give you advice which , could I myself follow , I should be happy . LETTER II Heloise to Abelard To her Lord , her 20 LETTER II.
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... hands ; remem- my knowledge of the writing and my love of the brances hand gave me the curiosity to open it . In justi- fication of the liberty I took , I flattered myself I might claim a sovereign privilege over everything which came ...
... hands ; remem- my knowledge of the writing and my love of the brances hand gave me the curiosity to open it . In justi- fication of the liberty I took , I flattered myself I might claim a sovereign privilege over everything which came ...
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